A smarter way to share information with your team

(*This content originally appeared on Office Online)

Ever wish you and your team could share project-related ideas and information without spamming each other in e-mail or waiting your turn to check out and edit group documents on a SharePoint site? We’ll show you how easily you can collaborate with your teammates with a shared notebook in OneNote 2007.

Originally created as an individual note-taking tool, OneNote has matured into a veritable Swiss Army knife of the Microsoft Office family. With OneNote 2007, you can create and maintain "shared notebooks" — easy-to-use information repositories (similar to wikis) that you and your teammates or colleagues can view, edit, and maintain together — all at the same time, and from any networked PC in your company, at your school, or in your home.

Within a shared notebook, you and others can collect, maintain, and share a variety of information from various sources and keep it all updated and available in a single location. OneNote automatically and continuously synchronizes everyone's changes to the notebook so that its pages and sections are always up-to-date. No waiting your turn to view or edit, no manual downloading of the latest files. You can even access a shared notebook when you're disconnected from the network (for example, to add information during a flight). The next time you connect to your network, OneNote synchronizes all of your changes, making them immediately available to the others in your group.

Sound too good to be true? Read Michael Oldenburg’s full column and he’ll show you how it’s done.

-- Annik